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by jwilber 6y ago
I agree with your larger point, but your cancer comparison is absolutely ridiculous. Especially in a paragraph claiming others lack empathy. The vast majority of white-collar parents not only chose to have children, they actively planned to
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by jwilber 6y ago
Curious why the onus is on journalists and not complacent political parties or branches/members of government. Sure, newsrooms can sway public opinion, but they’re also basically the only reason we know about those problems to begin w
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by jwilber 6y ago
Seems odd that they waited so long to fire “Rick”, and seemed quite fine letting him work on everything solo for years, despite the continued delays to the customer. In the event that this article is actually a true story (tbh it reads like
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by jwilber 6y ago
Saw these videos during my first job (cart attendant at Target). This behavior happens at every big company, both in and outside of tech. I remember the video being incredibly weird - they basically posited unions as bad because nonmembers
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by jwilber 6y ago
I don’t have any public codebase examples at hand, but what we’ve done at work also works quite well: basically we implement our D3 charts as a class with methods corresponding to desired lifecycle events. We then create a Component wrapper
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by jwilber 6y ago
You admitted your original, “learning D3 without observable is basically impossible” was overblown, but follow up with, “Mike is dismissive... and learning D3 outside of Observable isn’t supported”. Let’s be clear, D3 is an open-source libr
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by jwilber 6y ago
I disagree for two reasons: 1. There are multiple online/physical books about D3, online tutorials/courses on YouTube/udemy/etc., blog-posts, blockbuilder.org (deprecated but still useful), and the d3 documentation itse
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by jwilber 6y ago
Awesome, I’m always shocked by how much D3 has to offer and the quality amount of time + effort Mike Bostock continues to invest into the project. On a different note, hoping the CORS issued I received when using a v6 version d3-fetch with
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by jwilber 6y ago
Anytime I see comments referencing “gO To rEdDiT” I can’t help but sigh at the hypocrisy. Your comment adds nothing to the thread and only reduces overall discussion quality further. What do you hope to gain from such a comment? To break th
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by jwilber 6y ago
Why is this flagged? This is great and, for better or worse, pretty on point.
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by jwilber 6y ago
That makes more sense. I think it’s worth framing differently, though. Big companies aren’t writing the doc, per se. Engineers interested in the material are. And often, they want the opportunity to do so - it’s something of a stamp for “ex
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by jwilber 6y ago
Never thought I’d see anti-article sentiment on HN, and more generally, not sure what sort of response you expect to generate. Why comment at all? To avoid more of the same, I’ll say that the article itself is pretty detailed, but whereas
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by jwilber 6y ago
But Uber/Lyft have nothing to do with the job market being garbage. If anything, they provide options to help ameliorate the situation. Instead of the government playing court for something nobody wants, maybe they can do their job: s
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by jwilber 6y ago
+1. Once you get it up and running it works so seamlessly.
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by jwilber 6y ago
That video was very... weird. Not much to take away from a man rambling for 11 minutes. I’m not saying I do/don’t believe his claims, I just don’t know what they are to begin with.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Another way in which the poor are disproportionately affected. Driving a beater with no AC in the summer? All windows down.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Crush has been around < 1 year. Perl has been around for 32. Of course more people know Perl. If I’m being honest, you’re not adding anything constructive at all here - it seems you’re in a competition with yourself as to how much you ca
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by jwilber 6y ago
No- he outright plagiarized this. Even the code: http://pulzed.com/
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by jwilber 6y ago
Very out of touch comment. People worried about Health insurance are not paying $700/month for a monthly car payment. Maybe instead of trying to paint the problem of american healthcare access as a mindset issue, you can recognize that
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by jwilber 6y ago
I’m not sure how to phrase this without it sounding bad, and I don’t want to personally offend you, but somewhere in what you wrote is the epitome of everything I hate about tech culture (not saying there’s not a lot about tech culture that
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by jwilber 6y ago
I would love to hear your anecdotes about OCD’s competitive advantage, if only because I find it extremely hard to believe. OCD is not a knack for being organized or orderly. Without even mentioning the compulsions, it’s a never-ending onsl
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by jwilber 6y ago
Less than a year ago a cartel literally out-gunned the government to recapture the cartel head’s son from the police [0]. They literally overpowered and brought the city to a standstill. They run Mexico, no illusions anymore. Still a beauti
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by jwilber 6y ago
You claim, “People getting arrested have helmets...” and that, “They aren’t protestors.” - here’s a video of a peaceful protestor getting taken in an unmarked vehicle [0]. Sadly, plenty more exist of similar conduct. But two responses later
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by jwilber 6y ago
You say, “what’s really happening” and then follow up with generalizing all local governments as the same and all protestors as rioters, so I’ll assume your post isn’t very sincere. But I’d like a sincere response: What difference does it m
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by jwilber 6y ago
Oh man, I forgot about battle bots. Loved that show - haven’t thought about it in years but wow, must be loads of fun building those things... RIP to an all around positive addition to our world.
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by jwilber 6y ago
There’s a whole field around 1 called explainable ai. Interestingly, one of the SOTA techniques, SHOP values, comes from economics (game theory). Regarding the article, I think it was a good read, but as a data scientist on a research at Am
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by jwilber 6y ago
Sorry if you feel like myself and others are invalidating you’re experience. My sole intent is this: you claim that such a wage is livable on its own today. Your evidence for that claim is that you yourself had a similar wage, over a decade
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by jwilber 6y ago
As someone who now has a cushy tech job but grew up struggling, it’s infuriating to read a post as out of touch as yours. My main question is, as you yourself have admittedly never experienced it, why even bother commenting on it? All your
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by jwilber 6y ago
Maybe it’s versus I’ve been reading up on the torture of solitary confinement, but “Leading 18 strangers around the clock for a full year” - is not what I would consider as isolation. She does go on to qualify it further: “As the youngest a
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by jwilber 6y ago
Author was a female

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